Spectre de la rose, Le
Spectre de la rose, Le. 1-act ballet, choreog. Fokine, set to mus. of Weber's Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance), Op.65, 1819, and danced by Karsavina and Nijinsky, Monte Carlo 1911. Also poem by T. Gautier set by Berlioz as No.2 of song-cycle Les Nuits d'été (1840–1).
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